When more than three-fourths of some schools were out to illness, we continued to reflect how during more than 16-½ years of education, we missed due to sickness less than a handful of times. Continue reading →

Cowboys and cowgirls from throughout Kansas and Oklahoma will be in Manhattan this weekend.

“The 57th annual K-State Rodeo is the first rodeo of the spring season for the Central Plains Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association,” announced Beth McQuade, advisor of the K-State Rodeo Club, rodeo coordinators. Continue reading →

Accepting the check for more than $2,000 and accompanying awards for winning the Championship Bull Riding at Manhattan, Dillon Tyner of Hoyt, Colorado, exclaimed his feelings briefly.

And two weeks later, the adrenaline was still following: “That was just the third and fourth bull I’d been on since being out for six months from major hip surgery, so the win was even all that much better.” Continue reading →

And, reflections of the good ole days almost came back to real life. We rode the new Kansas Belle Dinner Train from Baldwin City to Ottawa and back again.

A five-course prime rib supper, as we’re prefer to call it, was fit for a king, most likely, but a cowboy and his longtime bride sure enjoyed the suit-and-tie snazziness too. On top of that, as all passengers did on the return route, we had talking parts in a live “who done it?” mystery. Continue reading →

Wild horses grazing the Flint Hills of Kansas are certainly a site to behold.

While there have been numerous stories, both pro and con, concerning the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program, no one can deny it is breathtaking as hundreds of horses come thundering across the prairie, nostrils flared and snorting, manes and tails flying in the wind. Continue reading →